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The aim of this study was to explore the role of maternal and paternal emotion regulation, dysfun... more The aim of this study was to explore the role of maternal and paternal emotion regulation, dysfunctional attributions, socialization goals and education on unsupportive emotion socialization practices in a sample of Greek parents. The impact of child gender and age was also explored in that context. Total of 99 mothers and 61 fathers of children aged 3-7 years were asked to rate how likely it would be to respond with supportive and unsupportive (distress, minimization or punitive) reactions in the face of their child’s negative emotions, using the Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale. The parents also filled in the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Parent Cognition Scale and the Parenting Goals Questionnaire while parent education levels and child gender and age were recorded through demographic information reports.
Results showed a significant negative relationship between cognitive reappraisal and parental non-supportive responses and a positive relationship between parent-centered attributions and non-supportive responses for both mothers and fathers. Socialization goals, with the exception of the social adjustment scale have not been found to be significantly related to any of the negative parental reactions. Findings between mothers and fathers were overall quite similar with only a few differences.
Implications for future research and parenting intervention programs are further discussed.
The aim of this study was to explore the role of maternal and paternal emotion regulation, dysfun... more The aim of this study was to explore the role of maternal and paternal emotion regulation, dysfunctional attributions, socialization goals and education on unsupportive emotion socialization practices in a sample of Greek parents. The impact of child gender and age was also explored in that context. Total of 99 mothers and 61 fathers of children aged 3-7 years were asked to rate how likely it would be to respond with supportive and unsupportive (distress, minimization or punitive) reactions in the face of their child’s negative emotions, using the Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale. The parents also filled in the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, the Parent Cognition Scale and the Parenting Goals Questionnaire while parent education levels and child gender and age were recorded through demographic information reports.
Results showed a significant negative relationship between cognitive reappraisal and parental non-supportive responses and a positive relationship between parent-centered attributions and non-supportive responses for both mothers and fathers. Socialization goals, with the exception of the social adjustment scale have not been found to be significantly related to any of the negative parental reactions. Findings between mothers and fathers were overall quite similar with only a few differences.
Implications for future research and parenting intervention programs are further discussed.